Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The folks at East Village Farms on Avenue A stayed open two days past their original Feb. 5 closing date... and by last night, the store was fairly miserable... workers had pulled most everything off the shelves...

They were just selling off the rest of the beer and soda, really... and anything else that you might want to buy — those lousy deli umbrellas, some dinted cans of Libby's products... the fellow working said they were closing after last night... (though I wouldn't be surprised to find them open today...)

Meanwhile, evilsugar25 passed along this photo of Jimmy from behind the deli counter on his last day on Sunday...

He wasn't sure what he was going to do for work. Take a few days off then start looking for another job...

5 comments:

Not like it was. Fewer and fewer Korean vegetable/fruit stands now. It's the same old story, commercial properties are increasingly rented by chains: CVS, Starbucks, Subway, etc. Post-Bloomberg, NYC needs to take control of its neighborhoods by instituting restrictions on chain stores, like San Fransisco has.

Thanks for posting my pic. I'm so sad. I went here every morning for my coffee, and generally did most of my grocery shopping here too. The staff was pretty sad during the last few days. Went in last night about 10:30 and bought a few candles and said my last goodbye. Every time something closes you go, "This is it, this 'hood is over." But this really was the kind of place that made the neighborhood a "neighborhood." *sigh*

I think I can see what Ken's Kitchen is saying...it seems like increasingly stores like Duane Reade are stocking fruits and other "fresh" foods. Hell, in most ppl's minds Subway = Fresh. Gradually we are losing are humanity in the quest for more efficient and more predictable. Becoming more rat-like, looking for the easiest button to push. Besides where is the incentive for some would-be grocer to open up shop, scrounge for small margins against high rents, while competing with corporate giants and their economies of scale. The decline of this once cool city is now front and center, nobody in their right mind could deny what is going on here. Yet rents still skyrocket. Fuck.

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